Claiborne Fox Jackson

Claiborne Fox Jackson (4 April 1806-6 December 1862) was Governor of Missouri (D) from 3 January to 23 July 1861, succeeding Robert Marcellus Stewart and preceding Hamilton Rowan Gamble.

Biography
Claiborne Fox Jackson was born in Fleming County, Kentucky in 1806, the son of a wealthy tobacco farmer and slaveholder. He served as a captain of US Army volunteers during the Black Hawk War before moving to Saline County, Missouri, where he sold anti-fever pills and became involved with the Democratic Party. He was elected to the State House of Representatives in 1836, and he served as Speaker of the House from 1844 to 1848, when he was elected to the Senate. In 1857, Jackson became Banking Commissioner of Missouri, and he became a supporter of Stephen A. Douglas. In 1861, he was elected Governor of Missouri on an anti-secession platform, but he decided to call for a state convention to decide the issue of secession. He made plans to carry Missouri out of the Union with a military coup, arming the Missouri State Guard, but Nathaniel Lyon' Union army entered St. Louis on 13 June 1861. At Carthage on 5 July 1861, he led Missouri State Guard units to victory over Franz Sigel's Union force, and he was chased to the far southwest of the state alongside Sterling Price. Jackson was deposed on 23 July 1861 after the State Convention reconvened in Jefferson City, and he died of stomach cancer in Little Rock, Arkansas in 1862.